Amongst the above, I have used tab, double quotes, single quotes, backslash. Haven’t tried other delimiters yet. space might not need an escape character i guess. I haven’t tried out yet. You can try and let other know how it works.

One more question, did u have to start the spark-shell in the local mode like you start in the VM installed in your PC/mac or in cluster using yarn master?
Do you have to make a jar or something or can you do everything in spark-shell?
I am working on the problems from Arun’s blog, he is doing everything int he spark-shell. Does that environment work in the exam too.

Hi Bala,
Congrats! And thanks for clarifying all the doubts, it really helped. Am taking in next week. Would like to have a quick chat with you. Kindly share me your email id. Mine is sakthi.murugan.v@gmail.com.

Congrats,
My question is regarding fill in the blanks for Spark questions and exam format;

All spark related questions are fill in the blanks?
People are saying that they are providing you spark template in sh file. Well, do we need to fill in the blanks in this file then copy and paste in scala or pyspark environment to run it?
Also, Could you share questions as much as you remember? Is it similar with Arun’s problems or harder than his problem cases?

All spark related questions are fill in the blanks?
People are saying that they are providing you spark template in sh file. Well, do we need to fill in the blanks in this file then copy and paste in scala or pyspark environment to run it?
Also, Could you share questions as much as you remember? Is it similar with Arun’s problems or harder than his problem cases?

There are no fill-in the blanks type questions. Kindly go through Durga’s intro video on the new exam format. No code snippet will be provided as well. You have to type in all code either by yourselves. Questions will be similar to what Arun has specified in his blog but relatively easier. Sorry, I cannot disclose any questions from the exam.